Transplanting Yellow Polyps? Advice needed

MikeyNYC · 01-03-2007, 08:58 PM

Hey all, I have some nice yellow polyps in my tank, and wanted to know if there is a safe way to transplant some of the polyps one location another. The colony has been growing in one patch, and wanted to spread things out a little bit. Haven't done any fragging yet, so specific info on how to go about cutting, and transplanting the polyp would be appreciated. I have the epoxy on the way. THANKS IN ADVANCE

fritz · 01-03-2007, 10:31 PM

I bust a piece off that has a few polyps on it, then glue that frag to a piece or Live Rock with Super Glue gel.

crox99 · 01-03-2007, 10:44 PM

you can try to scrape them off the rock and they should reattach in a few days.

Alfredo De La Fe · 01-04-2007, 12:25 AM

Sometimes it takes several months, but eventually you will be asking how to STOP them from spreading over everything.

-Alfred

**nanoreefer22** · 01-04-2007, 01:08 AM

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Originally Posted by crox99


	you can try to scrape them off the rock and they should reattach in a few days.

Ever tried this??

tosiek · 01-04-2007, 01:24 AM

Soon your gonna want them only growing in one place. they spead quick and are viscious little buggers.

DonCisco · 01-04-2007, 09:49 AM

kind of like pulsating xenia? I had a frag of yellow polyps destroyed by a hermit, they were gone, all that was left was maybe a few yellow specks on the frag. left the frag be now after 1 month... there they are again, very small but definitely yellow polyps coming up.

Seadog09 · 01-05-2007, 11:10 PM

Gently scrape the polyp as close to the rock as possible off the rock with a sharp razor. Put the polyps in small bowl or something that won't float around tank with the rock you wan't the transplants on. cover the container with some onion bag mesh and rubber bands. Then put it in a quite area in the tank. After about a week or two they should take hold of the new rock.Good luck

fritz · 01-05-2007, 11:33 PM

I had a piece about the size of your in that pic. I broke it in half and glued each half to a different piece of Live Rock using Super Glue Gel. I have now two colonies each with about a hundred yellow polyps each. I find that they reproduce fastest if fed Phyto plankton, then cyclopeeze and lastly brine shrimp. I use Spray-Dried phytoplankton. It comes in powder form and lasts quite a while in your fridge.

01-03-2007, 08:58 PM	#1
MikeyNYC Ol' Skool Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: White Plains, NY Posts: 636 Reefer Ratings: (64) Friends: (13)	Transplanting Yellow Polyps? Advice needed Hey all, I have some nice yellow polyps in my tank, and wanted to know if there is a safe way to transplant some of the polyps one location another. The colony has been growing in one patch, and wanted to spread things out a little bit. Haven't done any fragging yet, so specific info on how to go about cutting, and transplanting the polyp would be appreciated. I have the epoxy on the way. THANKS IN ADVANCE Last edited by MikeyNYC; 01-03-2007 at 11:11 PM.

01-04-2007, 12:25 AM	#4
Alfredo De La Fe Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Upper Manhattan Posts: 838 Reefer Ratings: (16) Friends: (0)	Sometimes it takes several months, but eventually you will be asking how to STOP them from spreading over everything. -Alfred __________________ Imperial Coins & Artifacts, Inc. (Ancient coins & Antiquities)

01-04-2007, 09:49 AM	#7
DonCisco nano freak Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Staten Island Posts: 344 Reefer Ratings: (5) Friends: (0)	kind of like pulsating xenia? I had a frag of yellow polyps destroyed by a hermit, they were gone, all that was left was maybe a few yellow specks on the frag. left the frag be now after 1 month... there they are again, very small but definitely yellow polyps coming up. __________________ So long, and Tanks for all the fish

01-05-2007, 11:10 PM	#8
Seadog09 Reef-nut Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Bronx Posts: 188 Reefer Ratings: (16) Friends: (1)	Polyp transfer Gently scrape the polyp as close to the rock as possible off the rock with a sharp razor. Put the polyps in small bowl or something that won't float around tank with the rock you wan't the transplants on. cover the container with some onion bag mesh and rubber bands. Then put it in a quite area in the tank. After about a week or two they should take hold of the new rock.Good luck

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01-03-2007, 10:44 PM	#3
crox99 Audi Sport Join Date: May 2005 Location: Brooklyn, Marine Park Posts: 5,291 Reefer Ratings: (49) Friends: (6)	you can try to scrape them off the rock and they should reattach in a few days.

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tosiek Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Greenpoint Brooklyn, NY Posts: 1,588 Reefer Ratings: (30) Friends: (10)	Soon your gonna want them only growing in one place. they spead quick and are viscious little buggers.